Word: sweeps
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...Americans live on a vast patch of the earth, a sweep of scattered geography in which states tumble together around barely visible boundaries, and we have no idea who the hell we are. Of course, various people have tried to find out; we have drifted down the river with Huck Finn, poured across the highways with the Joads, maybe followed Kerouac through his woozy continental high-jinks. We somehow believe that there exists a sense, a spirit, something, that defines this tumbled vastness as distinctly American...
...five-game match, however, took its toll on Harvard. Colgate proceeded to sweep the Crimson...
...push and pull between tough tactics and constitutional requirements result in a compromise. For years, drug dealers had made Chicago's public housing projects their roosting ground, selling from apartments and raking the hallways with gunfire during turf wars. Last September the Chicago Housing Authority launched "Operation Clean Sweep." Housing authority agents and police made surprise apartment visits looking for unauthorized residents, many of them alleged drug dealers who had moved in with girlfriends. But some inspectors tended to treat tenants like students in a dormitory, demanding that visitors leave by midnight and nosing through drawers, in effect conducting searches...
...passions behind the fight are easy to understand for anyone who has seen the almost unimaginable sweep of the Amazon basin. The river and forest system covers 2.7 million sq. mi. (almost 90% of the area of the contiguous U.S.) and stretches into eight countries besides Brazil, including Venezuela to the north, Peru to the west and Bolivia to the south. An adventurous monkey could climb into the jungle canopy in the foothills of the Andes and swing through 2,000 miles of continuous 200-ft.-high forest before reaching the Atlantic coast. The river itself, fed by more than...
...them. For 13 straight years, she took at least one of the four annual Grand Slam titles; for 14 straight years, she ranked first, second or third in the world. Her favorite victory came at age 15 over Margaret Smith Court, mere weeks after Court completed a sweep of the Grand Slams. But her finest moment was probably in the final of the 1986 French Open, when she fought back from a set down to defeat her most esteemed rival, Martina Navratilova, and win the title for a record seventh time. The competition with Navratilova spanned 16 years, 80 thrilling...